to any muslim terrorist group that's what u.s. officials have revealed after investigators interrogated the surviving suspect. in the hospital he's an associate going to has details now from boston. official complaints in the presence of a judge and a lawyer have been filed against nineteen year old boston bombing suspect just hearts or nine of this took place at his hospital bed here in boston where he has been kept under strict guard ever since his arrest friday evening we do know of course that he suffered several serious injuries and was unable to speak for this entire time sunday evening he finally awoke and was able to answer several questions and writing and finally today he was conscious and able to react to the charges being brought against him at his hospital bed these charges of course include the use of weapons of mass destruction as well as the malicious destruction of property resulting in death now the penalty that's her knife is now dead facing

as a death penalty or any term of years behind bars including life he's also facing a fine of up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars throughout this brief encounter with the judge we do know that mostly her knife was. nodding and offer mation of hearing what he was being told he only spoke once when asked whether or not he's able to afford a lawyer and he said no so legal counsel is going to be presented to him. well despite being of chechen origin the alleged bombers spent almost half of their lives in the u.s. have parents applied for asylum or both visitors to russia but this didn't stop her from warning the f.b.i. over the possible terror intentions of the eldest brother two years ago questions now being raised by the f.b.i. failed to take proper action to use guy nature contacts we look at the possible reasons. as the dust settles in the wake of boston bombings the question many ask

is why and how could u.s. federal authorities fail to act on the valuable intelligence from two years ago stating that the middle of was radicalized dangerous and quote prepared to join unspecified underground groups that's the information the f.b.i. says they received from the russian government so two years ago the f.b.i. interviewed the guy and reported back to the russians that they found nothing suspicious since then they've apparently failed to monitor the middleman because if they have they probably discovered his you tube page under his own name by the way full of radical content with a playlist titled terrorists so you have intelligence from a foreign government you have the individual openly sharing radical content and yet somehow he's off the radar the fear is the reason the f.b.i. dropped the ball on the alleged russian intelligence is that they treated it as soley russia's problem they may have taken the marylands chechen background into consideration and they may have ended up looking at this individual from a more political rather than purely law enforcement point of view this is possible

given the history of all the requests and pleas that russia has made in the past with regards to a number of individuals from north caucasus accused of heinous crimes particularly those of chechen background one example yulia moderates who was known as the right hand of the internationally recognized chechen terrorists. just a quick reminder of who was he was killed in two thousand and six. record as a chechen militant leader included in one thousand nine hundred ninety five he and his gang attacked the city of good yarn of took up to one thousand eight hundred residents of that city hostage in a hospital including one hundred fifty children at least one hundred forty people died as a result of that attack also as he gained power in the region stated his objective to have all muslim regions in russia break away from the country it was basically a call to start a war on all fronts among his other heinous acts that was to. school hostage crisis in this line in two thousand and four terror that russia will never forget it left

sui hundred and thirty four people dead one hundred eighty six of them children so the right hand of this monster who helped stage all this whore. arrives in the u.s. somewhere around the year two thousand settles down in boston by the way and receives political asylum despite russia's pleas to treat him as a clerk criminal at the beginning us federal authorities appealed the boston course decision on granting him asylum then they withdrew their opposition after a number of political heavyweights in the us tuned in to support the chechen militants including former sector of state albright so when questioning u.s. federal authorities reaction to the alleged russian intel on the middle of it is important to keep in mind the mindset perpetuated in the u.s. for many years in favor of the militants in russia and against the russian government's actions to stop them new york city's former mayor rudy giuliani spoke to the confusion that many americans had as they learned about the background of these hard i have brothers the chechen revolution against russia is an islamic

based revolution they want to islamic state in russia. not inherently anti-american right anti russian. american i mean and in fact here's the odd part of this if anything we've been i'm not going to say sympathetic with them but we've certainly been critical of and how far he's gone in dealing with. so if anything they should they shouldn't have this anger at the united states so given all this maybe maybe this political mindset has prompted authorities in the u.s. to drop the ball on valuable law enforcement intelligence on top of. well she's gone nature kind reporting the other caucuses the scent of the suspects prompted the u.s. media to shift focus to the groups in chechnya and establish a russian connection to the case a bit earlier in the program i spoke to matt clements a regional manager at the i.h.s. information company an expert on european and former soviet countries he says the

alleged boston bombers are most likely to have been radicalized outside of russia. the church and nationality or ethnicity of the two prime suspects is actually somewhat misleading. since i have lived in russia for the last ten years but actual time they spent in north caucasus appears to be relatively small and there's some disagreement about that and i actually think the most likely outcome is that these guys are probably going to be self radicalized rather than having direct links to militants in the north caucasus there are no number of reasons in which people become radicalized the details surrounding time alone as younger brother are somewhat sketchy at the moment so to go into too much detail would be to speculate too far however that does seem to be some signs around the older brother tamerlan in particular to suggest that he was struggling to adapt to life in the united states which is a sign of previous people who become radicalized in this sort of a way indeed this kind of disengagement with society can often lead people to look

for alternative sources and indeed radical islam can be one of those kind of factors which people can turn to is that as a means to sort of direct their lives and as always here it are to you we always get interested in what you think on the stories we're covering today on our website our to dot com we're asking for your view on how the boston bombing investigation will unfold you can just click your way over to the web site ing cast your vote online. fears for the lives of more than half of the hunger striking guantanamo bay prisoners are finally being shared by u.s. authorities and the military is sending additional medical personnel to the camp where a growing number of inmates are refusing food in protest over mistreatment and indefinite detention dr stephenson arcus a retired army medical corps officer and a former senior advisor to the defense department he says it might not be long before the strike turns lethal. typically people get very sick after about

fifty days in which they've not had any food but are taking water so they may be getting very sick and i think there's a fear that a number may die within the next several weeks but all the world medical associations are categorically and ethically against force feeding the reason being is that it in fact disrupts what is most important which is establishing a constructive relationship were poorer with the hunger strikers and being able to discuss the terms of their protest the this is a they if they have it also. really overrides their autonomy which is very important in medicine we except that is one of our ethical principles so that by and large most organizations across the world feel that it is not acceptable and in this particular case what it does not help resolve their grievances and help

resolve the conflict that we're having between the detainees and the authorities. violations of prisoner rights at guantanamo bay are just one aspect the u.s. has been scolded for by china. take a look at what else put in its report criticizing washington. brought. by the iraqi police leaves twenty six dead as violence escalates in the deeply divided country. ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital a public storm is gathering in britain with calls on the u.k. government to offer asylum to hundreds of afghan interpreters who of course worked with the country's forces during its military operations they're being left behind as the army withdraws to face the wrath of the taliban if you use them as an enemy

collaborators. picks up the story. it was a dangerous job that required courage many of these translators are washing on the frontline so they're working with soldiers risking their lives in exactly the same way soldiers do but while british forces withdraw the afghan interpreters who made their what possible are being left to fend for themselves because your group or. shadows. or you are all sent for those you have to be if i catch you then i would rafi worked at camp prince in the helmand province says he gets regular calls from the taliban some six hundred fifty interpreters just like rafi remain in afghanistan with no right to settle in the u.k. those times when you when you finish the job and you've done it very well there's a thank you at the end of that job in this case it's a death threat it's a risk to your life but seen by this how about this having collaborated with the

enemy and dave in the past year targeted killings of so-called international collaborators by the taliban have doubled r.t. got in touch with the foreign and commonwealth office who are responsible for the interpreters asylum claims this is the response we've got people who have put their life or mine for the united kingdom will not be abandoned the government has put processes in place to ensure the service given by former interpreters with a term forces is taken fully into account if individuals apply for asylum in the u k. the keyword here is individual for the moment it's a case by case basis according to the foreign office to make sure the personal circumstances are recognised case by case the sign of claims can take months even years there's no accountability every other nato country that directly employed interpreters has offered them some kind of special program visa program asylum

britain's the only country that hasn't is still dragging its feet on this we will be involved in events overseas in the future at all military clearly will need to have people helping them but who is going to help our military if they realise that they're not going to help themselves senior military and political figures urging the people who work here in the u.k. foreign office to rethink the policy and campaigns gaining momentum over sixty thousand people have signed an online petition urging the british foreign secretary to offer a bulk resettlement program while the politicians think it over and here the men that risked their lives to help british forces say that the waiting game is getting deadlier by the day we were helping the people but all they see is that real war with the aggression forces in afghanistan which are so called the no two forces or rise of forces but to every other of the national. aggression forces

and once they leave the people who are in danger and will pay for some wrongdoings of the americans who have been interpreters and their families. r.t. london. for a short break and more news coming your way just amuck. world . science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've dumped a few jerks covered. the

international airport in the very heart of moscow. a researcher live on ought to be in human rights of become the latest battleground for china to challenge america in addition to a trade economy and regional military supremacy beijing a slab washington's approach to people's freedoms in its own report released on the

heels all but american one the infringement of rights abroad increased electronic surveillance and a spike in gun violence such as some of the issues china has criticized the u.s. for alexi the chefs keep us more on this. after years of swallowing accusations of violating human rights beijing is fighting back after last year the us published its scalding human rights practices report now china held a mirror back to washington and its role of international human rights judge. let's take a look at where the two clash the u.s. again accuse china of limiting internet freedoms the so-called great firewall of china where beijing has long being under scrutiny for blocking many western websites such as facebook google and you tube but those criticizing china are no saints the sounding people and cispa bills to control internet data have made waves across the atlantic lately and the u.s. government approved interception of private text messages and emails for security

needs are hardly contributing to online freedom china's single party political system and lack of democratic elections also came under fire the chinese report made a swipe back at america's multi-party system saying that in what seems to be a democratic process it's really not the people that the amount of money spent on complaints which really decide the winner is the largest part of the us report was dedicated to human rights as they are today from harsh labor conditions to poor salaries indeed china's status of being the world's factory is nothing new and the cheap labor force concept has long been debated beijing hit back with a scathing claim that in the country where racism and discrimination officially do not exist after american and hispanic and bullies earn forty percent less than the white population in the united states and that's through the glass ceiling for women who earn a twenty percent smaller salary than men the u.s. report also lashed out at the treatment of prisoners and members of opposition in china contrast that with a country which runs notorious guantanamo prison and the allegations of multiple

human rights abuses within its walls with china highlighting full statistics on all inmate deaths in u.s. prisons and the use of brutal force against peaceful demonstrators in twenty twelve it is no secret that china has a checkered human rights record but by countering the claims of those who it believes should get its own house in order it is quite clear that beijing no longer wants to see a monopoly in the market of examining human rights. reporting there and eric draitser an analyst at stop and parry alyson dot com he says despite china undoubtedly having a direct hold of human rights itself it does have a point in showing the world the us is in no position to lecture others. for the united states to talk about human rights it's incredible hypocrisy when you have a massive hunger strike going on in the concentration camp known as guantanamo when the united states has engaged in violating the human rights of the people of libya the people of syria of countless other nations around the world the chinese

certainly have a lot to answer for for in terms of their own human rights record but we should also remember too that the it is the and it states which monopolizes control of international institutions such as amnesty international human rights watch doctors without borders and so forth which act as the arbiters of human rights sitting in judgment of countries whether they are or not violators i'm not suggesting that there aren't good people who work within some of these organizations or that the organizations themselves don't sometimes do good work but often are the united states determines to be human rights violation is whatever the united states does is not a human rights violation. north korea in the meantime is making its own response to the u.s. human rights report promising to bolster its nuclear program and the country is now reportedly seeking international recognition as a nuclear armed state the u.s. had laid out disarmament issues as

a condition for talks pyongyang's official newspaper says that if indeed negotiations were to happen they would be between equal nuclear nations james corp at the editor of a japan based news website says north korea is trying to highlight the western hypocrisy on the issue. the question is whether or not that anyone has the right to say whether or not they are allowed to be a part of this exclusive club i think what we have to understand right now is that north korea is calling out these other nations on the nuclear hypocrisy that's been hardwired into international relations for a long time now and if you look at the actual statement that was made they said for example our position is clear never dream of denuclearization on the korean peninsula before denuclearization of the world is realized this really has to be seen as a poke in the eye at the community that assembled in seoul last year at the nuclear security summit in two thousand and twelve to talk about denuclearization of the world but of course that was directed specifically at countries like north korea

and iran which weren't invited to the summit so i think this has to be seen as calling those nations out on the hypocrisy. this is and a manhunt continues in western russia as police sweep several regions offer a gunman flees a crime scene leaving six people dead and disappears into thin air more details on our website. also online for you this hour fukushima has crippled nuclear power plant will need more than three decades to decommission power feed times are already running out for tokyo to complete that you can see what japan should be bracing itself for the worst case scenario. dot com.

it's good to have you with us today here when i say at least twenty six people have been killed in iraq as they gather to vent their anger at the shia led government ahead of the publication of local election results in iraq for a loosely calf. according to the iraqi defense ministry the truth is that they beat the. government in the meanwhile the protesters say that they were simply staging an. open fire along a preceding. bomb. in the southern baghdad neighborhood of. tens of thousands of iraq. the area. again i knew mr noir amahl to be in recent months now if you. are doing their minority community. do them from job also completing the.

anti-terrorism laws that have been specifically. in the last few years and. violence dozens of. bombings. last week because. a lot action the trials on the. channel there. and the runoff. election. in the. problems. are and will. very much and i'm. going to come. now. and jim brann of the stop the war coalition told us a bit earlier in the program that simply put the ongoing violence in iraq is an extension of the devastating war the level of violence has never. gone back to what it was ten years ago after the war and talking about it's never return

to that there's been terrible periods of around two thousand and six and against that things are much better but otherwise the level of violence is constant it's all clearly a consequence of the invasion ten years ago these things the level of sectarian violence for example has no history like that in modern iraq. whatever the situation was like in iraq before two thousand and three the fact is that we have an unprecedented situation today and the single cause of that is the war and the occupation and these are these are the remnants of it. there was no process there was no iraq. for example if you look at libya you find that the libyans did not decide the future of libya it was outside military intervention and what you have is extreme instability and so on and that's

a parallel with the wrong. ok straight to libya to open up the ante world update now two guards of the french embassy there have been injured in the early morning car bombing an explosive laden vehicle detonated in a packed side street course an extensive damage to the embassy itself and neighboring buildings french president francois hollande called on libya to act swiftly over this quote unacceptable incident the attack on the diplomatic residence is the first of its kind in the capital since colonel gadhafi regime was overthrown in two thousand and eleven. sauron has strongly denied any links to two men the canadian police claim were plotting to conduct a terror attack on a train in toronto canadian authorities say two males who are currently under arrest have links to al qaeda groups operating on iranian soil. broke its diplomatic links to terror on last september over several issues including iran's disputed nuclear program and its hostility towards israel. up ahead here on r.t.

investigate the republic of texas that's next. the movie world wars. z. being first zombie which stars brad pitt as one hundred seventy five million dollar budget has been recalled by paramount executives not because this is probably yet another stupid violent zombie movie but because the chinese might get offended according to the wrap dot com china was supposed to take the blame for starting the evil zombie apocalypse this time but china becoming the largest foreign market for american movies made artistic integrity fly out the window to protect the bottom dollar as is tradition and hollywood this is not the first time that there has been

pro-choice censorship in hollywood the remake of red dawn which was originally a cold war era a minstrel show against russians was supposed to show a chinese invasion of america this time however they have changed it to north koreans who can't even defeat the us military in south korea let alone at an away game in the usa the thing that is interesting is not the censorship is the fact that they will censor movies for whoever's got a lot of cash countries the big markets won't be offended but countries with small markets will this is a complete prostitute mentality show that love to any guy who's got bills in his palm you know i was always pretty sure there were a lot of prostitutes working in hollywood i didn't know they actually started making the movies but that's just my opinion.

of international and world in the very heart of moscow. yes. regarding what the republic of texas was in eight hundred thirty six a number of people who had moved here from north america. at the invitation of the mexican government to settle here they were being chased out by a new president of mexico was also a general of the army is there. and they had to defend themselves against south and

as armies that lasted for about a year but finally general sam houston leading these volunteers defeated santa ana at a place called sandhya sento and in defeating the president general of mexico they were able to force him to sign a treaty. the treaty form the new nation so that he would never again come across the rio grande river to bother of the people in texas any more treaty also said. that the land of texas. belonged to the people who lived on the land of texas for ever and that's a treaty that is perpetual it doesn't go away. so what is the republic of texas now it is the land of texas one of texas does not belong to the us doesn't belong to the federal government the last of the people.